Colorado gog spam: Chris Cutler, Janet Feder, Colin Bricker - in concert

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PRESS RELEASE



WHO: The legendary avant garde drummer Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Art Bears) 
and guitarist Janet Feder with Colin Bricker on laptop computer


WHEN: Monday November 4th, 2002

 

WHERE: The Bug Theatre - 3654 Navajo Street, Denver - telephone 
303.477.5977

 

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

 

TICKETS: $10 at the door

 

 

Chris Cutler   (www.ccutler.com)

 

Chris Cutler plays his electrified kit, of which there is only one in 
existence. "Think of an electric guitar," he says, "then think of Fred 
Frith 
or Keith Rowe; I try to do the same thing with electrified drums, using 
piezos, radio mikes and a lot of pedals and peculiar objects." 


 

Chris Cutler once remarked that "for me, music has to be the deliberate 
and 
conscious organization of material to produce some kind of mutual effect 
in 
the human environment in which it is produced." During a performance at 
the 
MOCA-DC gallery in Georgetown on Saturday, Cutler offered a stimulating 
organization of some rather amazing materials.

In an hour-long piece that scuttled forward and sideways through moments 
of 
stark beauty, the barefoot Cutler worked with a full drum set, a sampler 
and 
a wide variety of small electronic devices, most of which were fitted with 
contact microphones. He attacked his drum kit with all manner of things, 
including a pair of plastic roses. The resulting sounds occasionally 
recalled 
the otherworldly experiments of Biota, but Cutler's constant drum rustle, 
which echoed and whispered through the near-capacity audience, bore a 
unique 
percussive signature. Grabbing implements that included an electric 
toothbrush, hand drums, vibrating toys, a violin bow, an electrified egg 
slicer and a pinball, Cutler produced a piece that buzzed in the mind long 
after it ended and confirmed that his inspirational exploration of musical 
boundaries is still in full, glorious motion." - WASHINGTON POST



 

 

Janet Feder   (www.janetfeder.com)



No one has proposed an amalgamation of the music of Bert Jansch, Leo 
Kottke, 
John Fahey, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, but 
Denver based guitarist and teacher (Naropa University, Swallow Hill), 
Janet 
Feder has. She accomplishes this and more on her “prepared” 
guitars...producing music, noises and sounds which are never less than 
captivating and seductive.  This is highly listenable and entertaining 
music. 
 Tonight at the Bug Janet will be premiering new work with Colin Bricker 
(music director of 'The Angry Inch' band in Denver's current LIDA 
production 
of Hedwig and the Angry Inch) on laptop computer in their duo 'Cowhause'.


"Somewhere along the line in her classical training (which gave her 
impeccable chops) Janet Feder jumped the tracks...the results are a kind 
of 
guitar music that you could not have imagined but which you've been 
waiting 
for, rife with surprise noises from weirdly tuned 'prepared' guitars 
(classical, 'wrong-strung' and Dobro)" - SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

 

"In her hands the acoustic guitar is a power tool that shreds." - EAST BAY 
GUARDIAN